12/07: Puebla, Perro, lineups

CMLL (MON) 12/01 Arena Puebla [SuperLuchas #293]
1) Akira & King Jaguar b Fuerza Chicana & Zigma
2) Black Tiger (Puebla), Lestat, Tigre Rojo b Ares, Espiritu Maligno, Siki Osama Jr.
3) Dark Angel, India Sioux, Lluiva b Hiroka, Princesa Sujei, Yeska
4) Averno, Mephisto, Terrible b La Sombra, Mascara Dorada, Toscano
5) Atlantis, Negro Casas, Último Guerrero b Místico, Shocker, Volador Jr.

Negro got the direct, clean pin after escaping La Mistica to set up the title match here tomorrow. In the recap, SuperLuchas it’s a NWA Middleweight title match – I thought it was the CMLL one, but that may make more sense. It’d work better to put up the NWA one here, so Mistico’s defending two different titles instead of the same one twice in two weeks.

CMLL (SUN) 12/07 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [mt]
4) Shocker DQ Mr. Niebla

Mr. Niebla got the first fall with a half crab, Shocker took the second with that headscissors/hammerlock cradle. Niebla fouled Shocker in the third and faked his own foul. Referee started to give it to Niebla, but figured it out and give it to Shocker. Nothing on the undercard mask match yet.

PERRO (SUN) 12/07 Sala de Armas de Ciudad Deportiva [MT]
2) Esther Moreno & Martha Villalobos b Ayako Hamada & Rossy Moreno
3) Intocable, Rayman, Super Crazy b Damián 666, Head Hunter II, Mr. Águila
4) Cibernetico, Dr. Wagner Jr., el Hijo del Perro Aguayo b Head Hunter I, LA Park, Olimpico

Both Head Hunters as surprise additions! Surely a sign of a happening show and not one of ‘just another indy show’. The recap, besiding saying “good entry” (where one would expect to see “sellout”), says this show didn’t need a Dos Caras Jr or a Rob Van Dam. Would’ve been nice for them to believe earlier today when they wrote the preview article wtih Dos Caras Jr. wrestling on this show and RVD maybe showing up. Alas!

Main event was a wild brawl, coming down to a battle of fouls between Wagner and Park. Wagner won. After the match, Cibernetico and Perro offered Wagner a Perro shirt, Wagner ripped it up, and Cibernetico and Perro heroically beat him up.

Fans were heavily behind the Perros, chanting for Super Crazy to join after he beat Damian to win the semimian.

There are photos in this thread on Box Y Lucha, with later ones showing more people but the expecation was sell out here. I think Perro did succeed in creating cheap lucha libre with stars that would be accesible to the public. Unfortunately, he created it in Arena Mexico. There doesn’t seem to be any evidence of lucha libre done any differently on the show, which had been another one of the ideas for the group. There are mentions of Televisa announcers Dr. Alfonso Morelos, Arturo Rivera and Leonario Riano working at the show, so perhaps there are plans for this to air somewhere, sometime.

By indy shows standards, it looks like they drew a fine crowd – more the NWA Mexico draws, more than typically IWRG draws. (Maybe more than the El Toreo show drew? I forget how much that building holds.) Compared to expectations, a non-sellout is still a disappointment.

No full results from CMLL’s show yet, but Sombra did retain his title and it sounds as if Averno & Mephisto are your new CMLL Tag Team Champions, winning by DQ after Averno threw his mask off and got the ref to blame Mistico for it. You’ll be shocked to know there was a mask challenge after the match.

Box Y Lucha posted two good articles from last’s week edition:
– Alex Koslov talks about his visa situation. CMLL revoked both his and Rocky worker visa after they split CMLL (which makes sense based on how they left, which Alex acknowledges) so they have to apply every week for a temporary visa. More I think about it, it seems like AAA’s problem for not getting this taken care of quicker. Alex is critical of Hector Garza (being imitator instead of a innovator, takes back calling him as a lesser Perro because Perro has shown far more guts starting up his own group) and CMLL’s old fashioned booking. He also says, as much as he’d like it differnet, Marco Corelone likes it in CMLL and is not going to join AAA.

– Cibernetico says he did everything the right way on his way out of AAA. (What, by putting on the Perro shirt and vacating the title instead of losing it?) He’s more reasonable when it comes to his no CMLL explaination; in between UWA and AAA, he was actually training with CMLL for 4 months. Cibernetico readily admits he was not very good at that point, and feels CMLL would still typecast him as that guy if he were to come in. Cibernetico wants to work all over the place as independent, work against Dr. Wagner at some point and not be bound by one promotion.

Today’s lucha libre london article: Getting in the ring with luchadors. There’s a referenced story about Cassandro being paralyzed for 18 days at one point after taking a bad fall.

Accion’s CMLL highlights were off the main event, with a really bad angle of the foul to end it (so bad, it was tough to see the foul.) AAA had the main event from Tabsaco, including a laughable tope for Parka and Electro beating Super Fly clean but no post match. WWE highlights were off the women’s match, again.

(SuperLuchas) Boliva’s Histeria prove he’s not a rip off of an established character, because his full name is Satanico Histeria. Well that’s perfectly – wait a sec! Oh well. Check out that Black Warrior kilt too, it’s great.

Luchaworld had Robert on CMLL in Monterrey, CMLL FSE from 10/06, AULL 2006 and KrisZ’s news update.

Lineups

CMLL (TUE) 12/09 Arena Queretaro
1) Eragon vs Rostro Maligno
2) Black Spirit & Ursus vs Perro del Ring & Rey Aztalan
3) Astro Boy & El Rey vs Drabek I & Principe Valiente
4) La Sombra, Máximo, Último Dragón vs Euforia, Mr. Niebla, Rey Bucanero
5) Místico vs Último Guerrero

It was said over on the wiki that El Rey, who’s been working here recently, is Mr. Mexico under a mask.

CMLL (SUN) 12/14 Arena Coliseo
1) Sensei & Trueno vs Puma King & Tiger Kid
2) Mascarita Dorada, Nino de Acero, Pequeno Ninja vs Mr. Aguilita, Pequeño Halloween, Pequeño Universo 2000
3) Mascara Dorada, Sagrado, Valiente vs Ephesto, Hijo del Cien Caras, Texano Jr.
4) Flash & Stuka Jr. vs Euforia & Nosferatu [ARENA COLISEO TAG]
5) Dos Caras Jr., Marco Corelone, Toscano vs Black Warrior, Lizmark Jr., Último Guerrero

YAY THEY’RE DOING THE MATCH. Hopefully CMLL will be back on FSE by then, or I’ll cry. Speaking of tag team titles, that’s one half of the IWRG tag team champions taking a booking that would seem to mean he’s no longer an IWRG tag team champ. Or at least no longer an IWRG member.

IWRG (SUN) 12/14 Arena Naucalpan
1) Imperio Azteca vs Soldado del Diablo
2) Eragon & Miss Gaviota vs Judas el Traidor & Shuriken
3) Freelance, Jack, Pendulo vs Black Terry, Trauma I, Trauma II
4) Head Hunter I, Nosawa, Tetsuya vs Oficial 911, Oficial AK47, Oficial Fierro

Oh, I hope IWRG goes for one more week so Tetsuya can get a title shot. You’re not really in this promotion until you face the Oficials for the trios titles.